Ami Klin, PhD

Ami Klin, PhD, is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Professor and chief of the Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Emory University School of Medicine, and director of the Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He obtained his PhD from the University of London and completed clinical and research postdoctoral fellowships at the Yale Child Study Center. Until 2010, he directed the Autism Program at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, where he was the Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

The Marcus Autism Center is one of the largest centers of clinical care in the country, providing a broad range of diagnostic and treatment services. It is also a large research enterprise working in functional genetics, developmental and behavioral neuroscience, and health equity science. Dr. Klin’s primary research activities focus on the social mind and the social brain and on developmental aspects of autism from infancy through adulthood. These studies include novel techniques such as the eye-tracking laboratories co-directed with Warren Jones, which allow researchers to see the world through the eyes of individuals with autism from birth. This has generated new science and technology leading to an FDA-cleared device for the diagnosis and assessment of autism in 16-30-month-olds. He has led five NIH P50s in autism research and is the author of over 250 publications.